Thursday, February 20, 2014

"English is a language of outliers." - Me, to my boyfriend when he tried to butcher an adverb in front of me

About that thing above: Yes, that's what I've always thought. I mean, we have all these grammar and spelling and construction rules...but then we constantly break them. It feels like half of the language is made up at random, with random rules made up on the fly. As a result, there is no bell curve. It's a parabola, vertex down, and the majority of the words we use or modify are on the pointy-uppy bits.

I can't believe I just made a math analogy... *horror*

Anyway, NOCTIS remains untouched--false alarm. Instead I'm going through Avenari yet again...again. I'm on the second edit since last updating here. The first edit resulted in a cut of about 17,000 words (50-ish pages). Of course, that only sounds like a lot if you completely ignore the fact that 300,000 words remain...

TT_TT Ah, it's a miracle that I don't hate my book yet, but I guess it's nice that I've actually managed to find some really cool places to add some really cool bits.

About Me

I write, draw, paint, knit, play video games, nerd out over biology and computers, and occasionally make YouTube videos that people actually watch--go figure! (Speaking of which, three years have now passed. *sigh*)
At the moment, my focus is my writing, so I'll mutter things about that on occasion--maybe even direct you to some artwork if I'm feeling especially outgoing.